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MANLY E. MARGESON, OF ONTARIO, INDIANA.

,GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,455, dated November 1, 1898.

Application filed March 12, 1898. Serial No. 673,633. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MANLY E. MARGESON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ontario, in the county of La Grange and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to combined sliding and swinging gates whereby the gate can be slid back to partly open the same to allow foot-passengers and stock to pass through, and which may also be swung around in the arc of a circle, so as to completely open to allow wagons and other vehicles to pass.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved construction of the same whereby I secure important advantages with respect to efficiency in use.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a gate constructed in ac-' cordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same on the line 00 :0, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View.

In the said drawings the reference-numeral 1 designates the front gate-post,provided with pivoted catches 2 to hold the gate in position when closed;

The numeral 3 designates the rear gatepost, provided near the top and bottom with hinge members 4, each consisting of a metal rod bent at or near the center at right angles, the horizontal portion engaging with the fence-post 3, While the vertical portion en:

gages with a plate pivoted to a plate secured formed with several apertures, with one of which the vertical portions of the hinge members t engage, and thus pivotally connect the said hinges with the post 3. J ournaled on pins 9, secured to the front and rear bars of said frame, are rollers 10, formed with flanges 12.

The numeral 13 designates the gate proper, comprising the horizontal rails 14 and the vertical bars or rails 15. The said rollers are located between two of the rails 14, and the flanges 12 are to prevent the gate riding'off the same. The said vertical rails of the triangular frame are provided with pins 17 to hold the rail engaging with the rollers down upon the latter.

In practice to allow foot-passengers and stock to pass through the gateway the catch or fastener is turned to release the front end of the gate, and the latter is turned partly around, when the gate can be slid back. To allow wagons or other vehicles to pass through, the gate is swung around on its hinges in the arc of acircle, so as to completely open the same. The gate can also be slid back when in this position, so as to balance the same and prevent the free or front end from sagging. The gate can be opened from either side and can also be swung partly around to allow of the passage of foot-passengers without sliding back the same, if desired.

By the peculiar construction of the hinges a bers secured to one of said posts provided with upwardly-projecting screw-threaded portions, the nuts, the triangular frame provided with apertured plates, the plates formed with a series of holes or apertures pivotally connected with the said apertured plates and with the upwardly-projecting portions of the hinge members secured to the posts, the pins secured to said frame, the flanged rollers jour- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set naled thereon and the holding-pins passing my hand in presence of two subscribing Witthrough said frames, of a gate comprising nesses.

the Vertical bars and the horizontal rails, one MANLY E. MARGESON. 5 of the latter of which engages with and is \Vit-nesses:

adapted to travel on said rollers,substantially JAMES H. HARDING,

as described. GEORGE M. SCHAPLAND. 

